Celebrating Yale School of Art’s 150th Year

The start of the 2019-2020 academic year marks the 150th anniversary of the Yale School of Art, which opened for its first day of classes on October 15, 1869. The first university arts institution in the United States, the School of Art was also the first Yale school to admit women and has done so since its founding. This was due in large part to the generosity of philanthropists Augustus and Caroline Street—parents to seven daughters—whose bequest stipulated that the School be for “practical instruction, open to both sexes, for such as propose to follow art as a profession.”

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Mark and identity credits

The 150th Anniversary mark and identity were created by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Caroline M. Street Professor of Graphic Design, Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design, MFA ‘64, and Laura Coombs, MFA '17 and Senior Designer at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

The animation includes fonts by: Tobias Frere-Jones, Ben Fehrman-Lee ’16, Yuanbo Wang, Martha Kang McGill ’14, Nina Stoessinger, Ben Ganz ’17, Bryce Wilner ’18, Christine Zavesky ’18, Dirk Wachowiak ’05, Emma Gregoline ’19, Hrefna Sigurðardóttir ’18, Joao Doria ’14, Julian Bittiner ’08 and Senior Critic in Graphic Design, Kyla Arsadjaja ’20, Laura Coombs ’17, Martin Bek ’16, Matthew Carter, Senior Critic in Graphic Design, Matthew Wolff ’18, Moonsick Gang ’16, Nate Pyper ’18, Other Means (Ryan Waller ’09), Stefan Thorsteinsson ’13, Tiff Hockin ’13, Tim Ripper ’15, Sean Kuhnke ’14, Shira Inbar ’14, Willis Kingery ’19, Weiyi Li ’12, Yotam Hadar ’15.